The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-10-06
MARY JAMES TRAVELS.
DRESDEN, SAxONY, WHERE ORES
DEN CHINA is MADE.
Excessive and Unlocked for Politcncss of
the People Of the German Countries.
The Sistinc 1yadonna-Picturcs. Palaces
and Porcelain.

and Porcelain.
Special Correspondence,
DRESDEN, SaXony, Sept. DRESDEN Sax.
ony, is my date line, but Dresden, China, is
what | wanted to write it, because Il train
acquaintance of mine said the other day that
she had heard so much about Dresden china
that she thought Dresden was in China until
she discovered by the guide book that It was
III Saxonv.
Dresden is called the "Florcncc Of the
NORTH and it is i, great place for art ans,
Americans. just as the other Florence is.
At first | thought our fellow citizen, cane
here for the love of art and began to fiatter
myself that before the very far distant future
We would have in our own land of the free
and hcme Of the buffalo Il Bost Dresl cuic a
Dres,lo-C hica goic and other schools of art.
bit find that the melting cause of Drcs,Iens
selection as lace OF residence is the rc-
markabe chcalnoss of living, and the small
social demands made upon the pocket books
of residents, and | am disappointed in my
art hopes, although possibly the art of cheap
living would be quite as valuable for atlop-
ton or cultivation iii the Uuitc,i States as the
less material one that grows on canvas
or rises out of marble. This thing of
Amer lean cheap living in Europe is ncreaS-
ing every year and | imagine that the
time will come when the immigration of
POOR Europeans to the Unitc,, States will be
offset by the emigration of sc,ni-wealtby
Americans, who, having acquired a certain
amount of fortune where money is plenty
and prices high, will so to IL country whoro
money Is scarce an! prices low. a congress
llSt: =
year, could put on quite as much style in
Dresden Us three congressman could i'll Wash
ngton.
Ever since we have come into these Ger
man countries we have been impressed with
the politeness of the people, and down in
Munlcl, where we met it first in its intensity,
l really drought Ia havca s,e,sn unless some
body We're rude TO somebody else On the
cars men tipped their hats and spoke to the
entire compartment coming in and going
ont. On the road, in the suburbs Of towns
men and women salutc,l each other and all
strangers; i'll parks the same code Of ,ec3.,-
ntlon WAS adopted, but the funnles. was to
see the Munich mems clfusiveness among ac-
quant;inces. have seen men ;u,n around.
if perchalce they had passed without speak
ing, and, taking OIL their hats, make such a
pavement. 1t dome in good faith. too.
attributed il all 10 Tic famous beer of Mr-
Mich, which, | am free to confess. is su1ii-
GENTLY am.bro>;i i'll its qualities to make. a
rian polite to I; tIitrhing post. The women
are quite as polite, too, as the men, which i,
saving Il good deal. for women are not so,
usually, particularly to each other. and
have Frequently had women s;,ea, to mo
han, I,..,..
not to have done 50. There's a deal of iull,i-
hmntE about good form, anyway, and that
the GernaIis disregard it is much more in
their favor than II they hedge,i Il person in
with the lroiii"ties and let her stlrve for
lack of hc mill; If human Kindness
or course, the finest picture in tie Dresden
gallery is the Sisiilc Madonna by Raphael,
and the Drrs'iencrs take care % it lust as :.
woman take, care of Il handsome set Of
diamonds. Ii occupies Il room alone and
IN, about it a frame of special design VIXEN
| went mo its presence Il dozen ,r mere
people were there before it and not Il one.
spoke ah"vca whisper. Ihnieve tie etiquette
of galleries permits conversation in the ur,in-
AIRY tones, but somehow before tins radiant
mother, standing out from The ,.anyst, a-
from tie clouds, with the Chris. child in her
tl1ils "li" feel, HAT silence best EXPRESSES
thought
met il couple "i Americans The. day
reached Dresden, and they had been in town
twenty four hours.
~ GA bet, sad one OF them in reply to my
inquiries, You hrt we've done the town
from Alfred to Omaha, and done it well.
Pictures, palace ;lllt! porcelain, the three Ps,
that's all tier" is to see and we beat the
record on the porcelain They've got 1900
pieces i'll til" Museum Johanncum and we got
there seventeen minutes before time To nut
NJ, the shutters. We saw it all and got out
two minute. to sparc-l5,000 pieces in fifteen
MINUTES. thousand pieces minute If yoll
know anybody that has done better trot ',ln
ont"
L looked at the youn:; i:.II i'll ;lstonishmcnt,
but didn't trot anybody out, because |
couldn't, and he went ON:
Yes, and we saw the most remarkable
thing near the door of the porcelain iunl,
shop that We have slapped uD against ON our
entire expedition.
And pray, said |, ''wiiat was that: I"
"A woman who returned me half the fee |
gave her for taking care of'my umhrela'
is 1t remarkable thai Il woman should do
that said |, sharply.
Not ut All, said he, :gilaiiily. "On the
contrary. only woman would have done so.
If it Lad been a man, my European expert
ence has taught me that he would have asked
for more
The young fellow, after all, w;.s.l. so Lad
us thought he was, ana am willing to for
give him the sin of speed, which so lespts all
American travellers
In every country we have visited one
friend familiar i'll our own country has fol-
lowed us, namely. the sign of 'tPost no bls.'
In England we found it Stick 10 bils;' in
France it WAS defense d'aicierc;'' in italy.
"E probi,a ;!lii>ionc. and il Germany. AUX
lchen vcrlo'len.f In Italy and i'll France the
sign is very common, but i'll Germany it is
not So, from which conclude that the Italians
and French better advertisers than the
Germans and they hate to see Il dead wall go
to waste
Dickey has picked up an iIea She las
seen before many front doors of residences
the Latin salutatory "Salvc," am, it has so
impressed her that she is going to take it to
America and sell the copyright to all drug
gists as their own peculiar sign wonder
that the druggists hadn't adopted it earlier.
MARY JANE
Points About Horses.